Thirty families in need of support in the Waterberg are being visited to ensure they have enough food and essential supplies. Education on basic hygiene measures is also offered. We are helping two child-headed families, some who are chronically ill, a man badly bitten by a dog, women with small children left with no means of support, an old woman with no ID card and many other needy cases.
120 individuals benefited in November and 94 in December 2020
TWT aims to support those who do not receive any social grant money, who are unemployed with no source of income or support, and are in urgent need of help. Those already on the Social Development system have been handed over to a social worker who has provided 18 families with food parcels donated by Shambala Game Reserve.
Nurse Grace works with Choppies supermarket and volunteers from St John’s Church who help to pack food parcels and deliver them to the elderly and those who can’t reach the supermarket due health issues.
We have been able to help those in crisis: thieves broke into one man’s house, stealing all his groceries whilst he was at a funeral. Another man had a fire at his house and needed clothes for his six children.
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Progress!
School children attending school benefit from the feeding scheme program
Those receiving grants are able to buy essential supplies for the family.
Some people are back at work while others now sell produce at the local market
Job opportunities for local community members in various sectors are emerging.
| SCHOOL UNIFORM was bought for a boy from a dysfunctional family who now has counseling. |
Increase in food prices.
Some families arrive late or find it difficult to collect the food.
Four children below the age of 10 are being neglected by their mother due alcohol. The issue has been handed over to social development for intervention.
5 families were abusing social grants. The cases were reported to the social worker.
Some people are becoming dependent on food parcels and do not want to work.
House break-ins and stealing within the community is worrisome with young boys involved in stealing from their parents.
Huge families are unable to feed their dependents.
Re-opening of taverns contributes to insecurity and unnecessary expenditure. This results in many drunken people leaving no food for their family.
Poor living conditions in informal settlements with poor sanitation and no water. Youth hang around quiet streets where they smoke, drink alcohol and abuse substances.
Cases of gender-based violence resulting in physical injury and assault needed to be reported to the Police station.
One men was severely injured and needed to be taken to hospital.
Teenage pregnancies remain a challenge.
The Waterberg Trust 
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